The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970

an anthology

by Langston Hughes, Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, George Moses Horton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Armand Lanusse, Pierre Dalcour, George Marion McClellan, John Wesley Holloway, James David Corrothers, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Leslie Finckney Hill, Angelina W. Grimke, Benjamin Brawley, Anne Spencer, Effie Lee Newsome, Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Binga Dismond, Jean Toomer, Joseph S. Cotter, Marcus B. Christian, Clarissa Scott Delany, Gwendolyn Bennett, Dorothy Vena Johnson, Countee Cullen, Jonathan Henderson Brooks, Donald Jeffrey Hayes, Frank Marshall Davis, Ariel Williams Holloway, William Waring Cuney, Edward Silvera, Charles Enoch Wheeler, Pauli Murray, Wesley Curtright, David Wadsworth Cannon, Herbert Clark Johnson, Beatrice M. Murphy, Robert E. Hayden, Leslie M. Collins, Margaret Walker, Catharine Cater, Helen Johnson Collins, Myron O'Higgins, Bruce McM. Wright, Alfred A. Duckett, M. Carl Holman, Naomi Long Witherspoon, Russell Atkins, Bette Darcie Latimer, William Blake, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Perient Trott, Vachel Lindsay, Hart Crane, Ridgely Torrence, Kay Boyle, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Jay Shapiro, DuBose Heyward, Elizabeth Bishop, Irma Wassall, Witter Bynner, William Rose Benét, Kenneth Porter, Josephine Miles, Barbara Stephanie Ormsby, Tom Redcam, Agnes Maxwell-Hall, Walter Adolphe Roberts, P. M. Sherlock, Basil McFarlane, J. E. Clare MacFarlane, Constance Hollar, Una Marson, Vivian L. Virtue, H. D. Carberry, A. J. Seymour, Raymond Barrow, H. A. Vaughan, Frank A. Collymore, Harold Telemaque, Isaac Toussaint-L'Ouverture, Ignace Nau, Luc Grimard, Christian Werleigh, Normil G. Sylvain, Duraciné Vaval, Charles F. Pressoir, Jacques Roumain, Roussan Camille, Regino Pedroso, Plácido, Aquah Laluah